California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Phonics for Kids: Learn Short & Long A Sounds with Letter Tiles. Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025 "The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel ...

Kids who don’t read by fourth grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school. We know what follows. When the California Assembly passed a bill last week adopting the so-called ...

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said.

To the editor: Along the lines of using phonics to teach children how to read, I would observe that a large number of children in California schools have homes where English is not the first language.

Kids can’t learn phonics or any other academic skill if they are not in school. What about poverty and hunger? We know that kids who do poorly on standardized reading tests tend to come from the ...

“Kids are not being taught how to read because for decades teachers have been sold an idea about reading and how children learn to do it,” Emily Hanford, a public radio journalist who for ...